Public expenditures on illicit drugs in Germany in 2006

Aim: In order to evaluate the adequacy of public spending on illicit drugs, there has to be a sound record of the actual amount of expenditures in the first place. As there has been no scientific overview of public spending on illicit drugs in Germany so far, aim of the project was to provide for the first time a comprehensive estimation of direct labelled and non-labelled expenditures by the federal, state and local government as well as social security funds in the year 2006. Method: The data collection on government level started with the analysis of publicly available budget documents in search of data on dr…